Art: City of Blood

Ever since the early Cubists first
caught the fever in 1910, African Negro sculpture has had an important
influence on modern artists. In recent months first-rate exhibitions
of this art have been held in Manhattan, Paris, London (TIME, April 119th).
Plain gallery-goers sometimes find it difficult to understand much of
an art which has nothing whatever to do with the civilized European
concept of Beauty, but which stems directly from the basic emotion of
fear. But one fact is plain to all eyes: in any showing of African art
the bronzes and...